Welcome to Africa
1. Location:


Laura on Ghana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kv5H53m7fs
Emily on South Africa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APfV241OLyI
2. Place
Post oak students asked:
1. What kind of houses do you have?
2. What kind of money do you use? They have coins and dollars made of animals.
3. Do they have bathrooms? they have weird bathrooms
4. Are there famous people in Africa?
5. What kind of clothing do you wear? they have to wear jeans and shirts with a jacket over it.
6. Why is it hot in Africa?
7. What is the most common food in Africa?
8. Do you have pop?
9. Do you have mountains around you? Richard has a lot of mountains around his city.
10. What kind of sports do you have?
11. What kind of government jobs do you have?

3. Human-Environment Interaction
Post oak students asked:
1. Have you ever seen snow?
Only if they have been somewhere there is snow.
2. Do you have air conditioning/heat?
No air conditioning.
3. Do you have diseases? and what kind?
4. How much rain do you get?
Richard said, "We get only a little every 4 months during the dry season but we get a lot in the other 8 months."
5. What kind of creatures do you have?
Pythons, elephants, lions, monkeys, giraffes
6. Do you have bottled water? In some places they do and in some places they drink out of plastic bags.
7. Has there ever been a tornado?
There might have been a tornado there


4. Movement
Post oak students asked:
1. How do you go place to place?
they use buses nomaly but some people have cars.
2. Do you use TVs?
yes they do have TVs.
3. What kind of shoes do you have?
they wear nike and adias.
4. Do you have computers?
yes they do have computers.
5. Do you have to walk everywhere?
no they do not walk everywere.
6. Do you have magazines and newspapers?
all the children like to read magazines.
7. How do you get the weather report?

5. Region
Post oak students asked:
1. How many countries are in Africa? there are 52-54 countries in Africa
2. Do children get enough food in Africa? The children barely get any food in Africa
3. Are there states in Africa? there are states in each country
4. Is your time the same as ours? It's not the same, its 5 hours apart.